Improvement in cooking-stoves



D. STUART. Cooking-Stove.

No. 198,43l. Patented Dec. 18, 1877.

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N. PETERS. PNOTO-LITNDGRAPHE UNITED PATENT Damon.

DAVID STUART, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO HIM- SELF AND-RICHARD PETERSON, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN COOKlNG-STOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 198,431, dated December18, 1877; application filed August 11, 1877.

To all whom itmay concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID STUART, of the city and county ofPhiladelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Flat-Top Cooking-Stoves, of which the following is aspecification:

My invention relates to improvements in fiat-top cooking-stoves; and theobjects of my invention are to facilitate the introduction into the ovenand the removal therefrom of baking-vessels and their contents, and toafford shelf-room outside the stove for the reception of differentobjects.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a .perspective view of afiat-top cookingstove with my improvements; Fig. 2, a plan view; Fig. 3,a vertical section; Fig. 4, a section of part of the stove, illustratingone of the features of my invention; and Fig. 5, a section on the line 12, Fig. 3.

A is the top plate, B the oven, D the front, and E the rear, of aflat-top cooking-stove, which is constructed in the usual manner,excepting in regard to the features about to be described.

It will be observed that the outlet-branch a is situated farther fromthe rear of the 'stove than usual, and on a projection, G, with whichthe rear fiue H or top flue I may be made to gollril mugicate by theadjustment of the damper I prefer to extend the top plate of the stoveto the rear of the projection Gr, so that this extension, which iswithout boiler-holes, may afford increased heating-surface and increasedaccommodations for culinary vessels, as will be understood by noting thedotted line :0 x, which, in Figs. 1 and 2, indicates the limit of thetop plate in an ordinary stove of this class.

The most important advantage of this extension, however, is derived fromthe exposure of the greater portion of its under surface to the air.This will be best understood by referring to Fig. 5, where it will beseen that the projection G is much narrower than the extension, theexposed portions of which are necessarily cooler than the portion abovethe projection; hence culinary vessels can be moved onto, or partlyonto, these exposed portions, as the degree of heat at which it isdesirable to maintain the vessels may suggest.

On one or both sides of the stove is a shelf, K, the upper surface ofwhich is on a level with the bottom of the oven, the shelf being pivotedat y to the stove, so that it can be adjusted to form a continuation ofthe bottom of the oven, or swing back out of the way.

In removing a baking pan or vessel with its contents from the oven, itcan first be pulled onto the shelf, which is partly supported by aprojection, h, on the stove, and the shelf can then be turned laterallywith its load away from the entrance to the oven, into which otherarticles may be introduced, while that on the shelf may be removedtherefrom at the convenience of the cook.

The pivoted shelf may also be used as a means of facilitating theintroduction of articles into the oven, the pan or vessel being firstplaced on the shelf when the latter is away from the oven, and theshelf, with its load, being then swung round so as to adjoin the oven,into which the pan can be readily pushed.

One or both of the shelves K may, if desired, be pivoted to the frontcorner of the stove, so as to swing round under the hearthplate, insteadof being pivoted to the rear corner, as shown.

It is always preferable to have two of these swinging shelves on eachstove, in order that while one is in use in connection with the oven,the other shelf may be swung back, as shown in Fig. 1, and used as areceptacle for the cross-pieces, lifting-poker, and othenappliancesrequired in connection with cookingstoves.

It will be seen that the shelf will relieve the cook from much of theexertion now demanded in introducing articles to and removing them fromthe oven.

While the shelf K may be made 1n one piece, I prefer to make it in twopieces, hinged together, as shown, so that when turned away from theoven, the outer portion of the shelf can be elevated out of the way.

I claim as my invention- The combination of the oven of a cookingstovewith a shelf, K, having its upper surface level with the bottom of theoven, and hinged to the corner of the same, in the manner described, sothat it can be turned to the rear or front of the oven, as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

DAVID STUART. Witnesses:

HERMANN MOESSNER, HUBERT HowsoN.

